We've probably heard the gamut of cycle debates by now, ranging from Soulblighter's planning, to how Alric will become the next leveller to the nature of the head. I've decided to throw my own half-baked idea into the ring and see who impales it on a pike and salutes it.
GURPs tells us that Connacht went off to try and find a way to escape the cycle. This tells us he was well aware that he would become the next leveller...now, one begins to wonder why it is that after the hero who became the leveller of the modern age was the one who was defeated despite the fact he should have been victorious.
Indeed it leads me to the conclusion that, Connacht planned his fall. This is assuming of course that C was a fundementally good fellow like Alric, who just occasionally had to make the hard choices (Like sacrificing the legion, or having an evil cult make the Tain)
He knew his mind would become twisted so he left plans in motion to see to his own obliteration. He sent Damas to scatter or destroy artifacts that he could use in his future war against the light. He also dedicated one of his Lieutenants, his most trusted one to becoming an advisor for the next servants of Light. Perhaps with Heron Guard magic he game The Head magical ability to survive past death and then allowed for him to stay behind in Llancarfan, knowing he would later be found.
Balor knew that the head would know the weaknesses and personal internal problems of the future Fallen Lords and would be able to relay those problems. Indeed the plan seems to have worked, except it would appear that an element of the darkness slinked into The Head as well.
If one notices also, in Out of the Barrier, the final point where Alric teleports the heroes out of contains a fairly large amount of mandrake roots. Now, I doubt the Shade or any of the fallen would've left them so one can only assume they were left behind by Heron Guards who knew that eventually SOMEONE would come through there and perhaps need them.
If Connahct saw to the failure of the Leveller's plan it would appear that he had succeeded in his goal of breaking the cycle...and perhaps Damas who's loyalty persisted subconsciously after his corruption saw to putting the final stake into the Leveller's Cycle.
